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The people in this community hope for a world where an individual's informational footprints—everything from an opinion on abortion to the medical record of an actual abortion—can be traced only if the individual involved chooses to reveal them; a world where coherent messages shoot around the globe by network and microwave, but intruders and feds trying to pluck them out of the vapor find only gibberish; a world where the tools of prying are transformed into the instruments of privacy. There is only one way this vision will materialize, and that is by widespread use of cryptography. Is this technologically possible? Definitely. The obstacles are political—some of the most powerful forces in government are devoted to the control of these tools. In short, there is a war going on between those who would liberate crypto and those who would suppress it. The seemingly innocuous bunch strewn around this community represents the vanguard of the pro-crypto forces. Though the battleground seems remote, the stakes are not: The outcome of this struggle may determine the amount of freedom our society will grant us in the 21st century. To the Cypherpunks, freedom is an issue worth some risk.

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What are some "new" rights you'd like to see countries commit to? - Lemmy.world (lemmy.world)
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This one answer to that question has been ringing through my head for a couple of days.

  • The right to solidarity, i.e. all should be allowed to partake in solidary action during a strike.
  • The right of initiative and right to recall.
  • The right to free software, or freedom from proprietary software.
  • The right to a third place, i.e. ready access to physical spaces that allow for socializing with strangers.
  • Freedom from eviction (mainly wrt rent strikes and squatting.)
  • The right to democratic education.
  • The right to cross borders.
  • The right to be forgotten.
  • The right to purpose, or freedom from meaningless labor. This includes the right to an employee fund.

And there are of course other things. I just think that under the world's current paradigm, these, at least individually, seem relatively attainable without a literal revolution.

Perhaps we might talk about how we might guide society toward these things using technology.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess cypherpunks aren't strictly the same as crypto-anarchists, but this feels like sort of odd fare for this community? Maybe my idea of what cypherpunks are has been colored by hanging around with Bitcoin people for so long.

Overall I'm not huge on pushing for positive rights. The only negative right I see on this list is "the right to cross borders", aka freedom of movement, which is something that I'm very much in favor of. I guess from a mutualist perspective, "freedom from eviction" would also be a negative right, since ownership is supposed to be based on occupancy and use.

For anyone that's not familiar with the terms, a negative right is a right not to have something imposed on you, where a positive right is a right to be provided with something.